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POLICY

A. Purpose

User agreements at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) cover the work performed by non-DOE contractor personnel at DOE-approved national user facilities (e.g., the Advanced Light Source, the Molecular Foundry, the Joint Genome Institute, the National Center for Electron Microscopy) or other user facilities (e.g., the 88-Inch Cyclotron) whether or not the agreement also brings in funds.

The Office of Sponsored Projects and Industry Partnerships (OSPIP) is the institutional organization responsible for submitting and negotiating all designated user facility agreements. All proposals and agreements must be processed through OSPIP. OSPIP Contracts Officers have authority from the Berkeley Lab Director to submit, negotiate, and accept awards in accordance with University of California policy.

B. Persons Affected

C. Exceptions

None

D. Policy Statement

DOE requires a signed user agreement to be in place to cover the work of non-Berkeley Lab personnel using Berkeley Lab's designated national user facilities. Berkeley Lab user facility staff must complete the proposal information requirements of the Research Administration, Proposal/Project Information Database (RAPID) for every organization approved to use the user facility, obtain internal approvals, and submit the approved forms to OSPIP. The OSPIP Contracts Officer will send a proposed user agreement to the identified organization's contact and, if necessary, negotiate the terms of the user agreement, obtain any required DOE approvals of negotiated terms, and/or execute the user agreement on behalf of Berkeley Lab. Until a user agreement has been signed by both the organization's authorized official and the OSPIP Contracts Officer, the organization's employees are not allowed access to the user facility.

E. Roles and Responsibilities

Role

Responsibility

Berkeley Lab User Facility Staff

Prepares Research Administration, Proposal/Project Information Database (RAPID) proposal information for every entity approved to use the user facility, obtains internal approvals, and submits the approved RAPID proposal forms to the Office of Sponsored Projects and Industrial Partnerships (OSPIP) Contracts Officer

OSPIP Contracts Officer

Creates proposed user agreement for the proposal submitted by Berkeley Lab user facility staff, submits the proposed user agreement to the other entity' s contact person, and is authorized to sign the user agreement on behalf of Berkeley Lab. If required, obtains DOE approval of negotiated changes to the agreement.

Source Requirements Documents

Non-Proprietary Class Waiver Regarding Patent Rights W(C) 2008-003: Class waiver for the Government's Domestic and Foreign Patent Rights at Designated Non-Proprietary User Facilities, which replaces the 4/19/83 DOE Letter, Class Waiver of Government's Rights in Inventions Arising from Use of DOE User Facilities and User Resources. This is the DOE Headquarters' Patent Class Waiver of the Government's Rights in Inventions from Users of DOE User Facilities and Resources. This is the non-proprietary waiver.

Nanoscale Memorandum of Understanding and Class Waiver W(C)-2005-001: DOE 7/14/2005 letter Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for Nanoscale Science Research Centers and Class Waiver, W(C)-2005-001 (class waiver and sample agreement) is replaced by W(C)-2008-003 above. This is the MOU for the operation of the Nanoscale Science Research Centers (NSRCs).

Propriety Class Waiver Regarding Patent Rights W(C)-2008-005: Class waiver for the Government's Domestic and Foreign Patent Rights at Designated Proprietary User Facilities W(C) -2008-005, which replaces the Class Waiver for Proprietary Users, (C)-91-005. This is the class waiver for National User Facilities on a proprietary basis.

INCITE Program Class Waiver W(C) 06-003: This is the class waiver for the DOE Innovative and Novel Computational Impact on Theory and Experiment (INCITE) program at the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC).

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